Rae Hendrie: Jess McCrae

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Golly : He terrorized the people of these mountains for years. Stealing the cattle. Killing the menfolk, kidnapping children from their beds where they lay. He was a beast, without a scrap of human feeling or decency. So, he had to die.

  Jessica : I don't like this.

  Duncan : Go on, Golly.

  Golly : It was the turn of the year thirteen hundred and four, and he'd been lured here by the promise of MacDonald hospitality. His men were plied with drink which had been drugged, so they just fell down, senseless. And at the stroke of midnight the assembled company turned on the bandit chief and stabbed him, so that no one man would be held responsible. Legend has it that he was cut by fifty swords.

  Molly : Uungh.

  Ewan : Fantastic!

  Golly : And that was the end of Mad Malcolm MacGregor.

  Jessica : Thank goodness for that.

  Golly : Or was it? With his dying breath he cursed the family MacDonald, and swore to haunt the House by the Water forever. Specially at Hogmanay.

  Ewan : Right now, in fact.

• [last lines] 

  Paul : [walking past]  Night.

  Duncan , Jessica , Ewan , Becky Body : Happy New Year.

  Duncan : Tell you what, though.

  [laughs] 

  Duncan : That billiard table thing was mad, but that stunt you pulled in the cellar was *amazing*.

  Jessica : What?

  Duncan : You know that thing with exploding bottles and

  [mimes using a sword] 

  Duncan : whishoo, whishoo. You know. How did you do that?

  Ewan : Must of been the drink.

  Duncan : Come on, lads.

  Jessica : Duncan. What are you talking about.

  [a sword sticks into the stairs just above them, followed by an evil laugh from above. They all look up, and scream]